Anno 9° Annæ Reginæ.
DIE Lunæ, 5 Junii.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:
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Epus. Lich. & Cov.
Epus. Asaph. |
Ds. Cancellarius.
Dux Hamilton.
Dux Roxburgh.
Dux Dover.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Anglesea.
Comes Portland.
Comes Grantham.
Comes Crafurd.
Comes Wemyss. |
Ds. Dartmouth.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Gernsey. |
PRAYERS.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, "That
Her Majesty had sent a Commission for the further
proroguing of the Parliament."
Sir W. Oulds, Gentieman Usher.
This Day Sir William Oulds attended this House, as
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, in the Place of
Sir David Mitchell, lately deceased.
Then the Lords Commissioners, being seated on a
Form placed between the Throne and the Woolsack;
the Lord Chancellor in the Middle; the Duke of Dover
on his Right Hand; and the Earl of Manchester on his
Left; commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod to let the Commons know, "That the Commissioners desire them to come, and hear the said Commission read."
Who being come, with their Speaker; the Commission was read, by the Clerk, as follows:
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"ANNA R.
"Anna, Dei Gratia, Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ,&
Hib'niæ Regina, Fidei Defensor, &c. Reverendissimo
in Christo Patri & Fideli Consiliario Nostro Thomæ
Archiepiscopo Cantuar. totius Angl. Primati & Metropolitano, Prædilecto & Fideli Consiliario Nostro
Will'o Domino Cowper, Cancellario Nostro Magnæ
Britanniæ, Reverendissimo in Christo Patri & Fideli
Consiliario Nostro Joh'i Archiepiscopo Ebor. Angliæ
Primati & Metropolitano, Charissimo Consanguineo
& Consiliario Nostro Sidney Comiti Godolphin Magno
Thesaurario Nostro Magnæ Britanniæ, Prædilecto &
Fideli Consiliario Nostro Joh'i Domino Sommers Præsidenti Concilii Nostri, Charissimis Consanguineis &
Consiliariis Nostris Joh'i Duci Newcastle Custodi Privati Sigilli Nostri, Will'o Duci Devon. Senescallo
Hospitii Nostri, Carolo Duci Shrewsbury Camerario
Hospitii Nostri, Carolo Duci Somerset Magistro Equorum Nostrorum, Jacobo Duci Ormonde, Carolo Duci
Bolton, Mainherdt Duci Schonberg, Thomæ Duci
Leeds, Joh'i Duci Marleborough Capitaneo Generali
Copiarum Nostrarum, Jacobo Duci Queensberry & Dover Uni Primariorum Secretariorum Nostrorum, Joh'i
Duci Argyle & Comiti Greenwich, Jacobo Duci Montrose, Joh'i Duci Roxburgh, Henrico Duci Cantii, Rob'to Marchioni Lindsey Magno Camerario Angliæ,
Evelyn Marchioni Dorchester, Jacobo Comiti Derby
Cancellario Ducatus (fn. * ) Nostri Lancastr. Thomæ Comiti Pembroke & Montgomery, Hen'co Comiti Suffolk &
Bindon Vicemarescallo Angliæ, Carolo Comiti Manchester, Ric'o Comiti Rivers, Thomæ Comiti Stamford,
Carolo Comiti Sunderland Uni Primariorum Secretariorum Nostrorum, Carolo Comiti Carliol. Carolo Bodvile Comiti Radnor, Carolo Comiti Berkeley, Ric'o
Comiti Scarbrough, Ric'o Comiti Bradford, Ed'r'o
Comiti Orford, Joh'i Comiti Poulet, Hugoni Comiti
Cholmondeley Thesaurario Hospitii Nostri, Joh'i Comiti Mar, Hugoni Comiti Loudoun, Jacobo Comiti
Seafield, Carolo Vicecomiti Townshend, Reverendo in
Christo Patri & Fideli Consiliario Nostro Henrico
Episcopo London. Prædilectis & Fidelibus Consiliariis Nostris Rob'to Domino Ferrers, Rob'to Domino
Lexington, & Will'o Domino Dartmouth, Salutem.
Cum nuper, pro quibusdam arduis & urgentibus
Negotiis, Nos, Statum & Defensionem Regni Nostri
Magnæ Britanniæ & Ecclesiæ concernentibus, præsens hoc Parliamentum Nostrum, apud Civitatem
Nostram Westm. Octavo Die Julii, qui erat Anno
Regni Nostri Septimo, inchoari & teneri ordinaverimus; a quo Die idem Parliamentum Nostrum usque
ad & in Nonum Diem Septembris tunc prox. sequen. prorogatum fuerat; & abinde, per separales
Prorogationes & Adjournamenta, ad & in instantem
Diem Lunæ, Quintum Diem Junii, prorogatum &
adjournatum fuerat, apud Civitatem Nostram Westm.
prædictam, ibidem tunc tenendum & prosequendum: Sciatis tamen, quod, certis urgentibus Causis
& Considerationibus Nos specialiter moventibus, idem
Parliamentum Nostrum ulterius prorogandum duximus. De Fidelitate igitur, Prudentia, & Circumspectionibus vestris plurimum confidentes, de Avisamento & Assensu Concilii Nostri, assignavimus vos
Commissionarios Nostros; dantes vobis, & aliquibus
Tribus vel pluribus vestrum, Tenore Præsentium,
plenam Potestatem & Auctoritatem, hoc instante Die
Lunæ, ad præsens Parliamentum Nostrum, Nomine
Nostro, usque ad & in Diem Martis, Vicesimum Diem
instantis Mensis Junii, apud Civitatem Nostram Westmonaster. prorogandum & continuandum, ibidemque
tunc tenendum & prosequendum; & ideo vobis mandamus, quod circa Præmissa diligenter intendatis, ac
ea in Forma prædicta effectualiter expleatis. Damus
autem universis & singulis Archiepiscopis, Ducibus,
Marchionibus, Comitibus, Vicecomitibus, Episcopis,
Baronibus, Militibus, Civibus, Burgensibus, & Commissionariis pro Comitatibus & Burgis, ac omnibus
aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum Nostrum
conventuris, Tenore Præsentium, firmiter in Man
datis, quod vobis, in Præmissis faciendis, agendis,
& exequendis, pareant, obediant, & intendant, prout
decet. In cujus Rei Testimonium, has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes.
"Teste Meipsa, apud Westmonaster. Quinto Die
Junii, Anno Regni Nostri Nono.
"Per ipsam Reginam, propria Manu signat.
"Wrighte."
Then the Lord Chancellor said,
Parliament prorogued.
"My Lords, and Gentlemen,
"By Virtue of Her Majesty's Commission now read,
and to us (among other Lords) directed, we do, in
Her Majesty's Name, prorogue this Parliament to
Tuesday the Twentieth Day of this Instant June: And
this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday
the Twentieth Day of this Instant June."